SAMBA TRAORE (1993) @ Cleveland Cinematheque / Mitchell's Ice Cream
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Two men rob a gas station in the West African nation of Burkina Faso. The station attendant is wounded and one or the robbers is shot dead. The other – Samba Traore – escapes with a suitcase full of cash. Samba returns to his home village, opens a bar and marries the beautiful Saratou. But the past is never far behind.
“[Director] Ouedraogo, whose eye for visual composition gives his films a serene, stately beauty, also makes Samba Traore a quiet study of the culture in which it unfolds.” – NY Times
Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
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3:00 MOVIE at Cinematheque/Cleveland Institute of Art, 11610 Euclid Ave, Cleveland
Free parking in the lots with "Cinematheque" signs on E 117th Street (accessible only from Euclid).
AFTER THE MOVIE: EATS/DISCUSSION at Mitchell’s Ice Cream, a few doors past Lee's Seafood Boil, in the alley parallel to Euclid, directly across 116th Street from the Cleveland Institute of Art.
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